We're taking some stuff for granted this semester. A week before starting school, the Habla Roosevelt team had a meeting in which we scheduled dates as to when we were going to start and how everything was going to work out. We planned everything as if we already had volunteers and more than one teacher that would be working but that was not the case. We were also working around the fact that we though getting volunteers would be as easy as 1, 2, 3 and everything would fall into place. But that wasn't the case. We expected that recruiting volunteers would be easy and we would have plenty of students interested in joining us. But recruiting is hard, especially during summer when most all students are going to the beach and don't want to sacrifice their precious weekend to come to school. I talked in front of middle school and high school and in front of individual homerooms last week, as well as to individual students, but haven't been able to get past four interested people. In all honesty, it kind of feels like me talking to them has been in vain. I feel that we are trying to hurry up Habla Roosevelt because we are so excited for it to happen and we want to start it ASAP. Our plan is to start March 14th, but it feels like we're starting without having a very good foundation: volunteers. At this point, there is absolutely no turning back because we've already made a promise to others, but we're going against the clock. Sometimes assumptions can be good and harmless, but sometimes, like this time, they are not so good and turn things frustrating. As a pilot program, we definitely want to make sure that everything goes accordingly and without any problems, and we especially don't want to let the Habla Roosevelt students down, but by hurrying things up there is a chance that that might occur. We don't have many volunteers, but they were supposed to be the driving force behind the program. In an attempt to make Habla Roosevelt happen, we have sacrificed perfection and hurried things up. It makes me wonder, are we hurrying things up too much?
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Corey Topf
3/10/2015 09:37:03 pm
Like we discussed in class, you ask some great questions here. But it's hard to know the answer until we try and iterate. My guess is that for the students who are getting the English classes, they're thinking we can't start soon enough! :)
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